Author/Authors :
Salmani, Fatemeh Faculty of Health - Birjand University of Medical Sciences,Birjand , Abadi, Alireza Department of Community Medicine - School of Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Taheri, Mahmoud Faculty of Engineering Science - College of Engineering - University of Tehran, Tehran , Alavi Majd, Hamid Faculty of Health - Birjand University of Medical Sciences,Birjand , Abbaszadeh, Abbas Department of Nursing - Nursing & Midwifery School - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran , Sheikhasadi, Hakime Department of Nursing - Nursing & Midwifery School - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran
Abstract :
Chest tube removal pain is one of the most important complications after open heart surgery.
The removal of a chest tube is a painful and frightening experience and should be managed with as little
pain and distress as possible. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of beloved person’s voice on
chest tube removal pain in patients undergoing open heart surgery. 128 patients were randomly assigned
to two groups: one group listened to beloved person’s voice during the procedure, and the other did not.
Since pain was measured by linguistic terms, a fuzzy logistic regression was applied for modeling. After
controlling for the potential confounders, based on fuzzy logistic regression, the beloved person’s voice
reduced the risk of pain. Therefore, using beloved person’s voice could be effective, inexpensive and
safe for distraction and reduction of pain.
Keywords :
Beloved person’s voice , Pain , Chest tube removal , Fuzzy logistic regression
